Justin Paul Theroux (born August 10, 1971 in Washington, D.C., USA) is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He is known for his work with film director David Lynch in Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006), his starring role as Kevin Garvey in the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–2017), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2016, and as Tom in The Girl on the Train (2016). He is also known as a screenwriter for films such as Tropic Thunder (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010).